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eMOLT Update 2024-05-03
Weekly Recap
This week, Huanxin and George visited the F/V Charger to upgrade the
eMOLT system on board to one of the newer deckboxes and a profiling
logger. Thanks to Captain Phil for coordinating with us. As we secure
additional resources, we plan to continue upgrading all of our existing
partners. If you have an old eMOLT system with a logger that requires
charging, and you aren’t on the list below, please reach out and we’ll
get you on the list. Vessels with an * next to their name are at the
front of the line because we’ve already removed your old systems.
- F/V Adventure *
- F/V Brooke C *
- F/V Devocean
- F/V Excalibur
- F/V Fremantle Doctor
- F/V Kaitlyn Victoria
- F/V Kyler C
- F/V Linda Marie
- F/V Nathaniel Lee *
- F/V Noella C
- F/V Princess Scarlett *
- F/V Resolve
- F/V Sao Paulo
- F/V Sea Watcher I
- F/V Tom Slaughter
- F/V Virginia Marie
- F/V Virginia Marise
The team has also been working on preparing our presentation for the
MassTech program’s review board. That presentation takes place on May
16th, and afterwards we’ll get feedback on the large proposal (150 new
eMOLT systems + a purpose built CTD to measure salinity) that so many of
you signed on in support of or wrote letters of support for.
A friend of JiM’s reported finding this drift bottle on Race Point
Beach in Provincetown a few weeks ago. After looking into it, JiM found
it was deployed by Canadian researchers back on August 28, 1961 near
Machias Seal Island, a disputed little patch of rocks about 10 miles
southwest of Grand Manan. We are in communication with the folks at St
Andrews Lab about these studies and the result of releasing nearly
100,000 of these bottles during the 50’s and 60’s off New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. How many more are buried in Cape Cod sands to be unearthed
during winter storms?

Bottom Temperature Forecasts
Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS)


Doppio Bottom Temperature Forecast
Doppio bottom temperature forecasts over the last month have been
pretty close to observations in Southern Maine, on the South Shore of
Massachusetts, and east of New Jersey. Observations were warmer than
forecasts around Plymouth, MA, and along the continental shelf south of
Massachusetts. Observations were cooler than forecasts Downeast, outside
of Provincetown, and south of Long Island. It will be interesting to see
if additional data points Downeast help improve the forecast in that
area as the year progresses.


All the best,
-George and JiM
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